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SOBCon 07: 1, 2, 3 Get Sticky!

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Have Fun, Promote, Get Sticky

VideoSticky

Rodney Rumford, the driving force and great friend behind the coolest widget yet — VideoSticky.com — has offered us an incredibly fun opportunity. All you need to play is about two minutes, a webcam and yourself.

It’s Easy as 1, 2, 3

Hook up your webcam and put together a few words about yourself, your blog and what your thoughts about SOBCon. Here’s how:

  1. Create a 2-3 minute video on YouTube.
  2. Tag it SOBCon.
  3. Send the Share Link to rssmarketing@gmail.com.

The best of the best will appear in the SOBCon Community Channel. Click link below to see where you’ll be.

and you’ll also be shown in my sidebar. If you join, you can channel video in your sidebar too.

–Me “Liz” Strauss

Blogging My Experience

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I've been thinking . . .

about a panel on blogging I saw.

About a month I was at a dinner at which a panel of experienced and well-known bloggers spoke. The audience was made up of mostly Internet marketing folks who do not blog.

Being there to see what was said and what was heard was an education in itself. When I left that night, I thought that disparity might be the most important “take away” that I had gained from the experience.

The experience. Note those two words.

The further I get from that night, the less I discuss the differences between what was said and what was heard and the more I repeat one comment made by a panel member it was Jory Des Jardins who said,

We blog about our experiences.

I agree. The best bloggers do that. They offer information that comes wrapped in the insight and wisdom they’ve gained from having “been there.”
We write about our experience of life, what we have learned, much like I am doing now. That’s how we help each other out.

That’s my “take away,” my insight, and my advice. Blog your experience.

Thanks Jory for your help on this one.

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SOB Business Cafe 04-20-07

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SB Cafe

Welcome to the SOB Cafe

We offer the best in thinking–articles on the business of blogging written by the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers of Successful Blog. Click on the titles to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Success Begins Today gives us a tour of the hometown — Guess who works there?

Ten Keyboards promotes looking for what works in a personal way.

WordSell offers 20 Tips that will bring success.

Jamdo tells how to break a promise.

Conversation Agent has advise about playing being “it'” with your resume.

The Remote Control CEO has found the office I want.

Related ala carte selections include

901a.m. has the latest news on our favorite doll.

Sit back. Enjoy your read. Nachos and drinks will be right over. Stay as long as you like. No tips required. Comments appreciated.

Have a great weekend!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Sensitized

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I’ve been thinking . . .

about being sensitized.

When I was in my 20s, my mom was in the hospital. She was dying. When I turned on the TV, it seemed every sitcom, every channel had a show in which one character was in the hospital. It wasn’t any more than usual. I was just sensitized.

When I had my son, the same thing happened. On TV, on the street, everywhere I looked, I saw people with babies or women who about to have one.

My own situation made me more aware of what was going on.

Today I woke up thinking, Oh my, it’s Friday again. How do my weeks seem to be Tuesdays and Fridays more than anything? I wonder what I will write?

Then I thought Something has me sensitized to those days of the week.

Why don’t I choose something else? I know I can. So I will. I choose joy.

This weekend, I’ve decided to be sensitive to joy everywhere I look. And the first place I looked was out my window to see a gorgeous coral sun sitting on the edge of the lake — a joyous, unique sunrise.

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To My Friend, Wendy, the Inspired Entrepreneur

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I agree

Yesterday at her blog, my friend, Wendy Piersall, wrote what she called The Biggest Blog Post of My Life. It started with these words.

Let me start at the beginning. Not at the beginning of this blog. Not even at the beginning of this decade. I’ll start at the beginning of my career. Why? Because this is a journey that has been tragic and difficult, exhilarating and amazing. I want to start at the beginning, because I want you to see yourself in this post. I want you to come with me, because I want you to write a post like this yourself someday, too. (Oh, God, I’m crying already.)

Wendy Piersall

It’s a fabulous story about an amazing and intelligent woman, who is beautiful inside and out, who knows how to live her life with every bit of the person she is.

It’s a kick and an honor to know her. Won’t you go read her good news and join me in celebrating with her? Click the title below to read her story.

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Truly Unique and Outstanding Blogs — Recap Week 7

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A Recap of the Facts

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On Monday, February 26, I started a quest to find 200 Unique Blogs. . . . I said that the blogs I am looking for

are one-of-a kind, stand-out, nothing-like-it, wow-will-you-look-at-that. only-one, wish-I-had-that-idea blogs. Every blog in the bunch will be outstanding in its own way.

Then I restated the definition:
A unique and outstanding blog is one so compelling and remarkable that it sticks with you — days later you still want to tell folks to experience it. A unique and outstaninding blog has an amazing impact on a reader. It is unforgettable to both the adult and the kid in you.

Did You Think I Dropped the Ball?

No way. Not on this one. I’ve been looking. Right now this makes somewhere near 75 of them. At 200, I’ll look them all over, take some out, and look some more. I am bound and determined.

A few more Outstanding Blogs

Here are 15 more possibilities. Do you have any you’d like to add to the next list?

  1. No more blank tapes

    2. http://nomoreblanktapes.wordpress.com/

  2. The In-sect

    3. http://www.in-sect.com/

  3. World Photo Blog

    4. http://www.worldphotoblog.com/

  4. equivocality

    5. http://www.equivocality.com/

  5. Momo Freaks Out

    6. http://www.momofreaksout.com/

  6. Taking Your Camera on the Road

    7. http://www.cameraontheroad.com/gallery_of_photography

  7. Wetpaint

    8. http://www.wetpaint.com/

  8. Listen To Your Kids

    9. http://www.listentoyourkids.net/

  9. We Feel Fine

    10. http://www.wefeelfine.org/

  10. Suggestica

    11. http://www.suggestica.com/

  11. Savage Chickens

    12. http://www.savagechickens.com/

  12. ping mag

    13. http://www.pingmag.jp/

  13. 25 peeps

    14. http://www.25peeps.com/

  14. found_drama

    15. http://blog.founddrama.net/

  15. BLOG ZICHTBARE ZAKEN

    16. http://zichtbarezaken.web-log.nl/zichtbarezaken/

I’ve only two things left to say:

I’ll be looking . . . are you still looking with me?

Have you seen any unique and outstanding blogs? . . .

UPDATE: I wondered at certain comments that were made about 25peeps when I put up this post. This morning it was linked in a post by In-Sect and I saw that it was updated with new pictures from my last look. What a mistake I made not realizing the direction in which this blog would inevitably go. The overall impact of the 25 photos has become increasingly more sexually graphic from where the blog began. To me that’s a sign the blog has lost it’s focus. I have removed it from the list of potential contenders.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Truly Unique and Outstanding Blogs — Recap Week 3
Truly Unique and Outstanding Blogs — Recap Week 1
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